The recent announcement of the KDE League is a good thing. It would be even better if the KDE people hadn't lied about it months ago. Work had been underway on the KDE League, but the earthshaking announcement was to be saved for Comdex, even if it meant deliberately misleading the existing user base in the interim. So much for the open community.

Project management and engineering is a largely neglected aspect of free source development. Monty R. Manley addressed this issue in a recent article, but I have reservations about his particular recommendations. Nevertheless, it's an issue we need to tackle.

Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, studied the demographics of the Linux developer community. The research showed German contributions to open-source software were greater than people with .edu e-mail addresses, and also greater than the number of people with .org and .gov. e-mail addresses.

Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, studied the demographics of the Linux developer community. The research showed German contributions to open-source software were greater than people with .edu e-mail addresses, and also greater than the number of people with .org and .gov. e-mail addresses.

Unlike the GPL, the BSD license also allows developers to create proprietary software from modified code, without giving those modifications back as Open Source. By contrast, anything created with GPL code remains Open Source. The software can be sold, but the source code must be included, for free.